Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-02

her pistol were buried. There was =
wire fence all around the place:
tied the horse to the fence. She got out of
the. buggy and by the time got the horse
sea sos csush. IN she fence When sSe os got
through she began to run. | caught her by
her dress and said: Hattie, you can't do
that" She. then indicated the locality
where the things were buried: There was a
covered the watch and pistol. This is the
can. scraped away the dirt and found a
woollen stocking in which the things were
wrapped, about two inches under the
British bull dog. only two chambers were
THE WATCH
was gold one. 1t was a Tiffany This
is the watch aud that is the pistol and these
are the parts of the stocking in whicn
found the objects Hattie W0olstecn was
standing alongside of me when dug up the
things. l asked her where the locket was.
She said she took 1t OFF and lost 1t. she also
said she knew nothing of the diamond ring:
We then got out of the grove and she asked
me to drive her down seventh street ior
little fresh air. Afterwards l brought her
back to my Office. This was on the 18th or
18th. She told me that she had cut a hole
out of the buggy, but did not see 1t until 1t
was brought here into Court the other day.
L Ln1nk ene bhlu ~ WIS iCu uAAhutSb pHoe
three O'Clock when she returned from
Compton. She said Harlan met his death
between IL and IL o'clock, and that she
fired the barn about midnight. She told me
that she had first met Harlan last January.
She had had $50 OF work done to her teeth
and her sister $35. Harlan asked permission
to call She liked him pretty we'll and didn't
know he was married She went out riding
with him and had supper with him on two
occasions at Bob Eckerts. They had wine
and a good time. She made me understand
that they had no relations of a criminal ma
ture at all. They went out to Mrs. Barbey's
on several occasions and became quite
friendly with the old lady. He bought some
lots down that way and some also at San
Gabriel. Hattie told the doctor that the old
lady had some bonds and he asked her TO
"swipe" them. After Hattie and Mrs. Bar
hey removed to 5I4 Fort street old Mrs. Bar
hey died one night. and while getting a
towel TO wipe the old lady's face she stole
the bond She then told the doctor that she
had the bond and he cautioned against dis
posing of it at the bank. However, she
on it. She then returned to Doc Harlan
and gave him $500. With the balance
of the money she bought two lots at San
Gabriel. She stated that when at Mrs. Bar
bcy's she looked after the old lady. On one
one occasion she came to Compton with Mrs.
Barley in buggy when the old lady had
collected the interest on her bond by means
of coupon at the Farmers and Merchants
eTal times while she was on a visit at Mrs.
Barbcy's.
cRoss-EXAMINED,
first time on the 18th at 9 A. N. She re-
msined about one hour and a half. l said
to her that she was the last party seen with
Harlan and ] wanted to know what she
nothing about it. What she then stated was
reduced to writing by officer Brady.
The defense demanded that the statement
be produced immediately. The prosecution
objected, saying that the document would
be produced when Officer Brady was placed
on the stand. The court sustained the OBJ
lection.
Witness resuming. l directed Mr.. Brady
to take down the statement. He is a special.
never had it in my possession. He read II
to Hattie and she said it was correct. Ac.
cording to my knowledge it was correct. l
asked Hattie on that occasion where she
came from. She said she had come from
a place near Peoria IN October OF last
other places few weeks, and came here in
the beginning of the year She then hired
out. The witness described in detail what
conversation had taken, place on the first
visit of Hattie to the police Office. had no
warrant for her arrest, She was not then
arrested. At 8 O'Clock that evening 1 sent
Officer Brady after her again. I had no war
rant. told her she must know something
dDOut nuIldu ulu uOL ttll ueI
then that she was under arrest. don't know
If she was fully dressed. did not subject
her to an interrogatory, but | told her that ii
she could throw any light about Harlan's
sister and their trunks brought to my office.
ordered the officers to search their things.
had no search warrant. did not have
Hattie searched. told her knew all about
the buggy. Then she admitted that she had
got one. Harlan and herself went toward
the stable together, but, as there were some
men whom Harlan knew near the gate, she
got the buggy herself. The witness here re-
lated the story of what Hattie had told him
over again.
THAT SECOND STATEMENT
Was not taken down by Brady; there was no
one present when Hattie made that second
statement relating to Harlan's death. l left
her in charge of Jeffries and Fitch. l saw
her again the next morning. i saw her
writing letter. did not open that letter,
that she asked for a lawyer. ! didn't tell
her that was lawyer enough for her, and
that she couldn't have one. gave no orders
regarding her letters. l refused to allow
people to see her. | refused her music
teacher to see her. | didn't know who the
woman was. allowed some people to see
the girls. I cannot positively tell that l al
lowed Mr.. Allen to see Hattie alone. l do
not admit that | refused all newspaper re-
porters to see Hattie from the time she was
first arrested by me until she was taken
away from eby virtue of writ of habeas
corpus. | examined her trunk Immediately
after she took poison. did not take Min
ME and Hattie's photographs. | did not
trunk. have a photograph of Hat
tie in my possession now. Witness Or
dered to show it and produced it. Minnie
gave it to me when i took it out of the
trunk. The morning after placed her un-
der arrest took her to restaurant. Hattie
asked me for port wine. There being no
wine there l paid the bill and toek her to
the Poodle Dog. | did not take private
room then, bring her in a decoction of liq-
uOr and urge her to drink il. Hattie drank
some port wine and so did l. That was all
the liquor we drank. / may have had some
conversation about the case then, but do
not rccOllect it. took her to dinner to the
Poodle Dog in the afternoon.
SHE TOLD ME NOTHING
That day. She told me about the pistol and
watch the night before and she said that she
had lost the lOcket. When I went to get the
pistol and watch with her stopped at no
other place except the places where Harlan
was supposed to have been killed and where
the objects were buried did not call her a
felon. did not tell her then that she was
guilty, that knew it,. and that | was ac-
quainted with her intimacy with Harlan. /
dug up the pistol and said as this all Hattie"
She said Yes thai is ALL The locket l lost,
he had only $40 of which l spent So and
the diamond ring know nothing about" /
am unwilling to swear that any gunsmith in
this town told me that Hattie Woolsteen had
bought pistol of him, but Il gunsmith de-
scribed woman to me who answered the
description.
/ did not give any confession to the
Eueniag Express. / did give statement to
the papers afterwards, when a statement al
legged to have been made by you was pub
lished. went to all the papers and gave
them statement. think that was on Sat-
urday The statement gave to the papers
was not published quite correctly. | never
stated TO any reporter or anybody else that
Hattie bowed her head when was about
to bring her into court and said: II did it,
never used any insulting language toward
Hattie. ordered Minnie's clothes removed.
She did not defy me. / had no warrant for
her arrest. She was not restrained of her
liberty until after Hattie took poison. Then
abe was confined in my Office for "a hours.
She was released on Sunday night,
| believe. / released her before
getting Mr.. Whites note telling me to re-
lease her. told Minnie that she had poi
soned her sister. l did not say damn you,